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Dec 2023

As I'm nearing completion of my 2nd episode of my comic, I've been thinking about the planning for episode 3. There's going to be a bit more dialogue in this episode.. could anyone give me some tips on how to put this together so it's not a crazy load of panels. For example, how could I keep the panel count down but not lose any of the dialogue as it's kinda important to the story

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Can't give too much specific advice without more context, but here's a few tips off the top of my head:

  1. Consider if the dialogue really needs to all be in episode 3, or if you can spread it out a bit. Lots of dialogue often (though not always) implies infodumping, which you want to avoid since it can be overwhelming to readers.

  2. If the dialogue really is too important to remove, try trimming it down as much as you can. I know you say the dialogue is important, but a lot of times you can rephrase things to use fewer words.

  3. Leave a lot of panel real estate for the text. Large panels are your friend!

When 2 characters are just talking to each other then you can make one panel to
establish who stands where. Then stack some speech bubbles over each other
between the panels.

The other option is to just put multiple speech bubbles into one panel, I read
some popular print comics where the artist did that

It´s even easier when you have a webcomic. You can also just put the
whole dialogue between the panels

Thank you all so much this has been Extremely helpful!!

Really appreciate it